moving stuff and marathons

Yesterday, I sat with Cubemate while she erged a marathon (in a very respectable time). She can’t make it to Saturday’s ergathon, so she decided to do it a week early. It’s a good idea to have someone there for a feat like that, for general health and safety reasons as well as to change movies and bring more water if necessary.

After that, I finished cleaning out an old desk I’m going to give away and cataloguing my remaining books. Tonight I have to figure out if I can get said desk down the stairs and outside to the curb, since there’s a charity group coming around for donations tomorrow morning. (I’d ask the Cubemate normally, but I doubt she’s in furniture-moving shape today!) I think I can turn it upside down and slide it down the stairs, then take it on a dolly or wheeled trolley from there.

My next major decision is whether to do a marathon of my own this Saturday at the Ergathon Rudder’s organized. I’ve said I’d do either a full or a half. The thing about doing a half marathon is it doesn’t mean much – I’ve been doing them every week for practice. I could probably manage a marathon – of course it would be painful and unpleasant, but that’s intrinsic to the distance.  On the other hand, I don’t need it for training, because I won’t be doing the marathon on the water this November. I’ve already done two marathons on the erg and two on the water in the past two years – how much do I really have to prove, and what is the added pride factor in doing a third erg marathon?

Come to think of it, there is one more enticement. Rudder and I have ordered a second erg – he says gyms in Eindhoven have short and inconvenient hours, and that the apartment is plenty big enough for a second erg. It may actually get here in time that I could do the marathon on a brand new erg.